The Turkey
Synopsis
The D-Day of the emancipation of a bourgeois woman from her ungrateful family. Hélène has everything. She has dedicated her life to her perfect house, her children, her husband, her flowers... It's her birthday, but tonight she'll celebrate in a way her family will never forget!
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Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : Local Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : Premium Films
Full credits (13)
- Executive Producer : Nicolas Brevière
- Screenwriters : Anna Margarita Albelo, Patrick Thévenin
- Director of Photography : Jean-Marc Selva
- Music Composer : Marc Tassell
- Editor : Jean-Gabriel Périot
- Sound recordist : Yolande Decarsin
- Costume designer : Teresa Kurys
- Voice-over : Raphaëlle Valenti
- Sound Editor : Xavier Thibault
- Assistant editor : Mona-Lise Lanfant
- Production Designer : Pierre Pell
- Sound mixer : Laure Arto
- Additional Music : Chloé Thévenin
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- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy, Burlesque comedy
- Themes : Family, Solitude/loneliness
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2008
- Runtime : 10 min 20 seconds
- Visa number : 119.577
- Visa issue date : 31/03/2008
- Production formats : 35mm
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Dolby SR
- Rating restrictions : None
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A Town Called Panic: The Christmas Log (2013), by Vincent Patar & Stéphane Aubier
The year’s end celebrations are coming. Christmas : the tree, the dinner, the presents. Indian and Cowboy are expecting their presents eagerly. Overexcited by the organisation of the celebration, they fight and destroy the Yule log on which Horse was putting the last touch. Horse is livid and cancels the gifts from Santa Claus. How will they win back the favours of Horse and The Old Bearded Man? How will they retrieve their gifts ? For Indian and Cowboy begins a long, very long Christmas Eve.
🎄🎁 This new episode of cult animated series ‘A Town Called Panic’ was selected for festivals around the world, and notable gathered the Audience First Prize at the Bologna
Future Film Festival in Bologna.
It was nominated for the 2015 César for Best Animated Short Film.
